Brendan Greaves

The Weather Station: Tiny Desk + Tour.

The Weather Station ended 2017 on a high note receiving year-end accolades from the likes of Uncut, New Yorker, SPIN, NPR Music, Uproxx, Stereogum and beyond for her self-titled album. While on tour last fall, Lindeman (guitar, vocals) and band—Ben Whiteley (bass), Ian Kehoe (drums), and William Kidman (guitar)—stopped by NPR Music for an excellent Tiny Desk Concert performance. Here she performed album singles “Thirty” and “You and I (On The Other Side Of The World),” alongside standout track “Free.”

Red River Dialect to Tour with The Weather Station.

Happy news: Red River Dialect is heading out on a UK tour this winter to celebrate the release of their forthcoming album Broken Stay Open Sky, including many shows with The Weather Station. Don’t miss this incredible pairing.

One Year/Six Ears: PoB’s 2017 Year-End Playlist.

As 2017 nears its ignoble end, we offer you a playlist comprised of some of our favorite non-PoB records we jammed in the office, in the car, on the porch, and everywhere else this year. Most were released or reissued (in some form) in 2017; none were released by us. No hierarchical ranking is intended or implied. We hope you find some pleasure in the ensuing five hours as you launch into 2018. 

Jake Xerxes Fussell’s Fall Line Radio.

ICYMI, a PSA: Local purveyor of fine tunes and stiff brims Jake Xerxes Fussell hosts a weekly two-hour radio show down the road at WHUP in Hillsborough, NC—with sometimes co-host and chicken-bog expert Jefferson Currie II: “Our idea of ‘southern’ is broad and inclusive and distances itself from stagnant notions of authenticity, exclusivity, and antiquity. As much as we cherish our prewar blues 78s and “old-time” fiddle tunes, we also love hip-hop, bounce, banda, and norteña.”

Annual Krampus Day Sale: 20% Off through Dec. 15 with Code KRAMPUS.

‘Tis the season to give records to beloved friends and family (and to yourself too.) In lieu of the madness of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, we prefer to observe Krampus Day (honoring the Central European folkloric anti-Santa critter). Shop PoB through Dec. 15 and enter coupon code KRAMPUS during checkout for a 20% discount on all catalog items.

PoB in Uncut Magazine’s Year-End Issue.

Uncut Magazine’s year-end issue is now out in the world, featuring a trio of PoB artists that they have graciously included on their list of the 75 best albums of 2017: Jake Xerxes Fussell (#44), Michael Chapman (#29), and The Weather Station (#4), the latter of which also gets an in-depth six-page feature by Jason Anderson entitled “The Quiet Storm.” Many thanks to Uncut for the kind words.

Red River Dialect Announce Broken Stay Open Sky + Share “Kukkuripa” via NPR.

The London-based band (with Cornish roots) brings a windswept energy and daylight to a contemplative, gorgeously rendered suite of songs about inhabiting the landscape, and our bodies, in joy and pain alike. This is the band’s most ambitious and emotionally affecting work to date: atmospheric but deeply rooted, equally concerned with investigating the concrete and the cosmic, both quiet details of the everyday and looming matters of faith. 

Red River Dialect: Broken Stay Open Sky (PoB-039)

The London-based band (with Cornish roots) brings a windswept energy and daylight to a contemplative, gorgeously rendered suite of songs about inhabiting the landscape, and our bodies, in joy and pain alike. This is the band’s most ambitious and emotionally affecting work to date: atmospheric but deeply rooted, equally concerned with investigating the concrete and the cosmic, both quiet details of the everyday and looming matters of faith.

The Weather Station Performs Live on q on CBC.

A few weeks back, The Weather Station played an intimate live performance, with strings, on CBC Radio’s q. Now, the video evidence has surfaced! Feast your eyes and ears on these versions of the three singles from her self-titled album.

Watch the Weather Station’s “You and I (on the Other Side of the World)” Video.

Watch the new video, shot at the Ontario Fall Fair and featuring musician Ian Daniel Kehoe, as premiered by Noisey, who write of the song: “Over atmospheric guitars and gorgeous strings that Lindeman self-arranged, its startlingly stunning arrangement matches the lyrical heft.” Fresh from a sold-out show in London, the band is also announcing a string of new UK tour dates in early 2018.